Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Tony Vye will play at Winthrop's "New Haven Special" and folk singers Booker Bradshaw and Sue Kalb will feature the program at Kirkland's "The Blue Heaven" Adams and Quincy are each planning dances for members only...
Financing came through the Yale-in-China Association and through income from the modest endowment, which now totals approximately $800,000. Reports from Changsha still reflected some of the early missionary enthusiasm that led to the Association's formation, while the "Bachelors" program, through which two graduating seniors spent a year in East Asia, similarly demonstrated the vigorous, somewhat idealistic, and somewhat elementary Yale approach. Yale-in-China intentionally did not and still does not favor advanced studies of China exclusively; it tries to raise Chinese standards by diffusing education and improving medical practice...
Much, however, as the audience (and I suspect, the singers) might have enjoyed an evening of football songs, there was other music on the program, and some of it was much worth remembering. I am thinking, in particular, of the Coronation Scene from Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov, sung by both clubs together. Any chorus of two hundred massed on a stage tends to be impressive, no matter what is sung. But the Moussorgsky was more than impressive; it was a triumph of high spirit and high decibels. The accompanists, playing what sounded like a two-piano arrangement of the massive...
...balance of last night's program consisted largely of sixteenth-century religious music, American folk songs and spirituals, and a handful of unclassifiable songs. One of the latter was Francois Poulenc's Chanson A Boire, dedicated to the Harvard Glee Club and sung by the Elis. It's a sort of cadenza for chorus, and, despite occasional Gallic touches, did not sound very different from the American folk songs sung separately by both clubs...
Donations during 1959-1960, the Tenth Giving Year in the Law School's Annual Giving Program reached $537, 201 according to a special issue of the Harvard Law School Bulletin released yesterday...